During a recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Meta CEO and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg told Rogan that Facebook’s restrictions around the New York Post’s 2020 article on Hunter Biden were based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The Post’s article alleged that data recovered from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, included emails that indicated Joe Biden used his position as vice president to help his son's business dealings in Ukraine.
Critics of Facebook's actions have taken Zuckerberg’s remarks to mean that Facebook censored news unfavorable to Joe Biden in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. In response to Zuckerberg, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) tweeted, “FBI & Facebook/Big Tech interfered in 2020 election Facebook acted as an arm of govt.”